linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/7] net: dsa: vsc73xx: use read_poll

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Date:   Sun, 25 Jun 2023 17:07:40 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Pawel Dembicki <paweldembicki@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/7] net: dsa: vsc73xx: use read_poll_timeout
 instead delay loop

On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 01:53:36PM +0200, Pawel Dembicki wrote:
> This commit switches delay loop to read_poll_timeout macro durring
> Arbiter empty check in adjust link function.
> 
> As Russel King suggested:
> 
> "This [change] avoids the issue that on the last iteration, the code reads
> the register, test it, find the condition that's being waiting for is
> false, _then_ waits and end up printing the error message - that last
> wait is rather useless, and as the arbiter state isn't checked after
> waiting, it could be that we had success during the last wait."
> 
> It also remove one short msleep delay.
> 
> Suggested-by: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Pawel Dembicki <paweldembicki@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew